Foundation

Foundation working for social and environmental innovation
Based in e-Estonia, the Fab City Foundation supports the global initiative through the development of projects for social innovation, research, and courses on urban innovation. The Foundation facilitates the Network of cities, hosts the annual Summit in collaboration with a local host, and leads strategic action research on innovative city models like the Fab City Full Stack and PITO to DIDO model.
Team
Supervisory Board

Sherry Lassiter
Fab Foundation

Liz Corbin
Co-funder and CEO Materiom

Francesco Cingolani
Volumes, Fab City Grand Paris

Julie Hjort
Chair of the Board
Danish Design Centre

Daniel Ibáñez
Director of IAAC

Erkki Karo
TalTech
Executive Board

Tomas Diez
Executive Director

Kate Armstrong
Strategic Director

Lucas Lemos
Admin Director
Team

Vasilis Niaros
Research & Innovation Lead

Carolina Ferro
Ecosystem Lead

Josefina Nano
Programs Lead

Ilenia Pennacchio
Communication Lead

Lucas Marangoni
Operations Lead

Norella Coronell
Production Manager

Freda Yamorti Gbande
Knowledge Manager

Tomas Vivanco
MDDI Co-Director

Mitalee Parikh
Project Manager

Daan Sonnemans
Program Assistant

Ámbar Tenorio-Fornés
Project Expert

Nikiforos Tsiouris
EU Projects Administrator

Diego Ainse
Project Assistant
Open and accessible research
Facilitating open design, research, and innovation with cities and communities.
The Foundation follows strategic research lines to meet our long-term plan to make cities produce (almost) everything they consume. Through our projects, courses, networks, and events we seek best practices for smart cities, green innovation, digital transition, and community building. We focus on producing high-quality case studies and outputs for take-up in and beyond our network of cities and regions and undertake high-level research with collaborators which you can read about on our research blog.

The founders



